I think the reorganization of the d.o links into seperate blocks is great.

I'm finding only one "annoyance".
The links to the -dev packages are direct to downloads. Whereas they used to be links to the project node of the release. I preferred that over the direct link to the downloads because I could view the date of the last build on the release node.

as it stands now, I have to manually goto the project page to check the date. which isn't all that bad, just different.

Any chance we can have a link in the developer links block to http://drupal.org/project/drupal to give quick access to the project page so that dates can be checked?

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catch
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Although I primarily check out of CVS, I used to use these a lot, and direct links to the tarballs would've made it a much quicker operation to right click, copy and wget. A link to project/drupal sounds like a good compromise though.

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What about a compromise like this?

<a href="http://drupal.org/node/97368">Drupal 6.x-dev</a> (<a href="http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/drupal-6.x-dev.tar.gz">tarball</a>)
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catch
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Good plan :)

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vm commented

I agree with the compromise.

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add1sun commented

The only problem with that compromise is that the new blocks are being created using the menu system and are not PHP/HTML blocks anymore. So if we want both links, we'll need a menu item for each of the nodes and tarballs.

So maybe something more like: ?
Drupal 7.x-dev
- Download 7.x-dev tarball
Drupal 6.x-dev
- Download 6.x-dev tarball
Drupal 5.x-dev
- Download 5.x-dev tarball

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vm commented

that works as well. Maybe i'm just being a PITA, but I always check the date on the -dev releases to insure my sandbox is running the lastest -dev code. Therefore, any way that makes it easier to get to the project page itself would be wonderful.

Even if it were

Drupal Project Page leading to http://drupal.org/project/drupal
Download 5.x-dev
Download 6.x-dev
Download 7.x-dev

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Git is amazingly fast. Do we really need to do this anymore? If not, feel free to won't fix. If so, please justify.

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Status: Needs review » Closed (works as designed)

I think these links got removed in the redesign, so closing WAD.